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10 Lesser Known Physical Signs of Autism In Girls · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  OK guys, here are 10 of lesser known physical signs of autism
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  in girls. I'm going to get straight into
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  it right now. Guys, welcome back to the Aspen
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  world. My name is Dan and I have
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  videos. OK guys, so I have a autism life
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  hacks PDF book you can download for free from autismhacks.net
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  right now. OK, so 10 lesson on physical
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  signs of autism in girls. So first I'm going to talk about
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  sensory processing issues. Now girls will experience
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  essentially processing issues by being sensitive to touch sound
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  like, you know, seeking out sensory environments, like they
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  may really like plushies or or or like squish mallows or
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  something like that. But then they'd also have an
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  aversion to things like Velcro or slime, which is really
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  interesting because you have century seeking attitudes in the
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  century avoiding attitudes as well.
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  There were two is delay in motor skill development.
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  Now, this could be final skills like picking up like pens or
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  putting keys indoors to, you know, macro walls where you're
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  trying to pick up a glass and not drop these.
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  A physical sign of autism that will present themselves in
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  females #3 is difficulty with social communication.
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  Girls who are on the autism spectrum will have a difficulty
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  in social communication, which will be more apparent when
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  they're trying to write a letter, instant message, or.
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  But do you like an academic kind of conversational piece?
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  This will be struggling but for them because they will not
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  really understand the social implications of a conversation
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  in social communication. And before it's repetitive
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  behaviour, this is kind of like doing the same thing over and
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  again. It could be stemming, rocking
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  backwards and forwards, hand flapping, you know, tapping
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  their fingers together, twiddling their fingers
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  together, twiddling their hair a lot, eating their hair.
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  This is all self estimatory behaviour or stemming, which is
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  a repetitive behaviour, but it's a physical kind of manifestation
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  that you could recognise and notice #5 is difficulty with
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  transitions, as is transitioning from being at school to being at
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  home or vice versa or being at, so being at the grocery store,
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  all these things become very difficult.
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  And what you'll find a lot of the time is the girl will really
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  avoid doing the thing that has to change.
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  So we'll just stay at home. We'll pretend to be sick so they
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  stay at home. This will happen a lot,
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  especially social situations. This will become more apparent.
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  Number six is eating disorders. Actually, some girls who also
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  will be picky eaters or have difficulty with food textures.
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  Not to mention social pressure and peer pressure from school
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  where it's more prominent in girls to have more anxiety
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  around food since there's a social conventional with things
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  like that for young girls, which is horrible but it happens when
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  autism girls are are very more susceptible to that because of
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  the neurological condition, the naivety of of social
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  communication. So never having sleeping issues
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  as problems including like difficulty falling asleep,
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  staying asleep, regulating sleep patterns.
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  Actually hitting Bram is going to be difficult because the mind
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  of an autistic female is going 1000 miles an hour and they are
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  trying to regulate themselves constantly and could very well
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  come out in sleep. Issues #8 is anxiety and
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  depression because autism and neurological condition.
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  It does come with mental health issues and anxiety and
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  depression unfortunately are some of the ugly ones that do
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  rear their head. For autistic individuals who are
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  female, so #9 is an unusual walk.
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  So some females in the autism spectrum may have an unusual
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  walking style. Now this could be down to a
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  motor delay or a sensory processing issue where they
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  could be experiencing the feeling of walking on the floor
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  quite uncomfortable and quite difficult.
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  So #10 is hypertonia. Now hypertonia is a low muscle
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  density or low muscle tone which is like a physical sign of
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  autism in girls which means for the micro development for
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  holding pens and other kind of small objects will be difficult
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  because they'll have low muscle tone in their actual arms and
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  they could be actually diagnosed with something called
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  hypermobility also. Now guys if this video is
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  Peace.